Borage (Borago officinalis L.) is a wild vegetable appreciated as a folk medicine and for culinary preparations. The introduction of borage as a specialized cultivation would allow for the diversification of vegetable crops and would widen the offeri...
The aim of using minimal food processing technologies is to preserve the raw material or to achieve a special technological goal with the least possible impact. When several technologies are used together, the intensity of each treatment can be reduc...
Agronomic fortification with microelement as well as macronutrients has been used in recent years with increasing frequency to improve the nutritional quality of plant products for human consumption. Here the influence of pre-harvest foliar micronutr...
Aiming for more sustainable chemical production requires an urgent shift towards synthetic approaches designed for waste minimization. In this context the use of azeotropes can be an effective tool for “recycling” and minimizing the large...
Borage (Borago officinalis L.) is a hairy pubescent herb known throughout the world for its folk medicinal uses, as well as for many culinary uses. There is still little information on the cultivation needs of this species, especially for its use as...
Minimally processed fruits undergo changes that require careful monitoring. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of edible coatings based on chitosan and gelatin using various application techniques for minimally processed papayas. The treatm...
Microbial foodborne diseases are a major health concern. In this regard, one of the major risk factors is related to consumer preferences for “ready-to-eat” or minimally processed (MP) fruits and vegetables. Essential oil (EO) is a viable...
It is necessary to adapt constantly to the business environment with its changing demands. Understanding the objectives, scope, and limitations of actual process changes is crucial, and can be achieved with numerous measures, methods, and techniques....
Plant growth regulators are used in high-value vegetable crops during cultivation and after harvest to increase yield, enhance crop management, and improve or retain the produce quality. The aim of this work was to evaluate the quality characteristic...
For implementing data analytic tools in real-world applications, researchers face major challenges such as the complexity of machines or processes, their dynamic operating regimes and the limitations on the availability, sufficiency and quality of th...
The effect of caseinate/chitosan blend on the shelf life of minimally processed apples was studied. In the first phase of the work, the effect of the biopolymer coating on the respiration rate of the minimally processed apples was studied as function...
The aim of this work was to enhance the use of a food-grade antioxidant extract obtained from lemon processing byproducts (peel, pulp and seeds) to extend the shelf life of minimally processed radishes. The extract (LPE) was previously characterized...
The application of coatings with essential oils for food preservation is an alternative way to keep minimally processed apple slices fresh, nutritious, safe, sensory palatable, and accessible for consumers. In the present study, the effect of three b...
Background: The global shift from open esophagectomy (OE) to minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) for treating esophageal cancer is well-established. Recent data indicate that transitioning from hybrid minimally invasive esophagectomy (hMIE) to tot...
The shelf life of minimally processed fresh (MPF) pears is affected by raw material characteristics and production factors. This study evaluated the effect of raw material storage (3 months in regular atmosphere [RA], 3 and 6 months in controlled atm...
Consumption of ultra-processed food (UPF) replaces the intake of freshly prepared unprocessed/minimally processed food (MPF) and is positively associated with hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The objective of this observational study wa...
Objective: The study aims to explain whether or not minimal invasive surgery (MIS) would be feasible in elbow fracture–dislocation with coronoid process fracture. Methods: At Taipei Veterans General Hospital, patients who had elbow dislocations...
Bunching green onion is an Allium species that has been widely used in food flavorings and seasonings. This vegetable experiences a rapid loss of quality during storage due to physiological changes and microbial spoilage. In the current work, the sin...
To solve the unrelated parallel batch processing machine scheduling problem (UPBPMSP) with dynamic job arrivals, heterogeneous processing times, and machine heterogeneity, this paper presents an improved artificial bee colony (IABC) algorithm aimed a...
While food markets and food production chains are experiencing exponential growth, global attention to food safety is steadily increasing. This is particularly crucial for ready-to-eat products such as fresh-cut salads and fruits, as these items are...
Background: This study estimated the monetary cost of diets with higher and lower caloric shares of ultraprocessed food products (UPF) and unprocessed/minimally processed foods (MPF) in Belgium for various sociodemographic groups. Methods: Data from...
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Heavy metals (HM) can be accumulated along the food chain; their presence in food is a global concern for human health because some of them are toxic even at low concentrations. Unprocessed or minimally processed foods are good sources of different n...
Multi-hole pressure probes are crucial for turbomachinery flow measurements, yet conventional data processing methods often lack generalization for complex flows. This study introduces an innovative approach by integrating machine learning techniques...
The increasing consumer demand for minimally processed foods (MPFs) has highlighted the need for innovative preservation methods that ensure both safety and quality. Among promising biocontrol tools, bacteriophages—viruses that selectively dest...
The aim of the present work was to evaluate the effect of various hurdles such as aw and pH as well as the storage atmosphere on the microbiological and sensory changes of minimally processed (lightly brined or marinated with acetic or citric acid) E...
Tetragonia tetragonioides, or New Zealand spinach, is a widespread halophyte native to eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and naturalized in some Mediterranean regions. This underutilized vegetable is consumed for its leaves, raw or cooked. Fo...
Fruits and vegetables (F&V) products are recommended for the daily diet due to their low caloric content, high amount of vitamins, minerals and fiber. Furthermore, these foods are a source of various phytochemical compounds, such as polyphenols,...
Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is a well-known technique for slow-moving target detection in the clutter spreading environment. For an airborne conformal array radar, conventional STAP methods are unable to provide good performance in suppress...
Conventional valorization of blast furnace slag commonly involves granulation, fine grinding, mechanical activation, or chemical activation, which increase energy demand and processing complexity. This study investigated a minimally processed blast f...
With the increasing participation of biomass in the world energy matrix, large amounts of ash are produced through combustion, resulting in the need to dispose of this waste to minimize the environmental impact. An alternative is to use ashes as phos...
The aim of this study was to determine the thermophysical properties and process parameters of cylindrical carrot pieces during their chilling. For this, the temperature of the central point of the product, initially at 19.9 °C, was recorded duri...
Recently, triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) lattice structures have been increasingly employed in many applications, such as lightweighting and heat transfer, and they are enabled by the maturation of additive manufacturing technology, i.e., las...
We studied the association between food intake, based on the extent of processing, and prostate cancer risk in a population-based case-control study conducted in Montreal, Canada in 2005–2012. Incident prostate cancer cases (n = 1919) aged ≤...
The paper examines the valuation and hedging of life insurance obligations in the presence of mortality risk using the local risk-minimizing hedging approach. Roughly speaking, it is assumed that the lifetime of policyholders in an insurance portfoli...
Numerous studies on preventive maintenance of minimally repaired systems with statistically independent components have been reported in reliability literature. However, in practice, the repair can be worse-than-minimal and the components of a system...
Certain naturally occurring volatile organic compounds are able to mitigate food spoilage caused by microbial growth. Their considerable vapor pressure enables them to create an antimicrobial atmosphere within a package, and this property can be used...
Fresh-cut produce are quite popular among consumers due to their eating ease, high quality and functional content. However, some of the processing steps taking place during minimal processing (such as cutting, peeling, draining, etc.) might speed up...
Carrots contain a significant content of phenolic compounds, mainly phenolic acids. Technological processing of carrots inflicts wounding stress and induces accumulation of these compounds, especially caffeic acid derivatives, in the periderm tissue....
Bovine immunoglobulin G (bIgG) was previously shown to enhance innate immune responses to toll-like receptor (TLR) stimulation, via induction of trained immunity. In this study, we investigated whether minimally processed dairy streams with high leve...
The paper presents a mathematical model of the system of repairs and preventive replacements by age of city buses. The mathematical model was developed using the theory of semi-Markov processes. In the model developed, four types of city bus renewal...
This work studies single-machine scheduling with general position-dependent deterioration, where job processing times are general non-decreasing functions dependent on their positions in a sequence. The goal is to find a job sequence such that makesp...
Potato is a source of different bioactive compounds, and the potato transformation industry produces conspicuous quantities of potato peels as waste. In this context, the objective of this research was twofold: (i) the evaluation of the recovery of b...
This article deals with the modified Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem (MDVRP). The modification consists of altering the optimization criterion. The optimization criterion of the standard MDVRP is to minimize the total sum of routes of all vehicle...
This paper discusses the design of a new self-balancing amplifier of an AC component power characterized by a minimal output DC offset. The design of the amplifier is based on semiconductor technology and intended for application in low-frequency ana...
This paper presents an estimation of the parameters for a Double Layer Super Capacitor (DLC) that is modelled with a two-branch circuit. The estimation is achieved using a constrained minimization technique, which is developed off-line and uses a sin...
The positive effects of the Mediterranean diet on healthy living are widely known, while the health effects of religious fasting have received increased attention during the last decade. However, no study has focused on the consumption of ultra-proce...
Unintentional vascular damage can result from a surgical instrument’s abrupt movements during minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic or robotic). A novel real-time image processing algorithm based on local entropy is proposed that can detect abrupt...
Background/Objectives: The growing prevalence of mental health problems among medical students is a global concern, with dietary patterns emerging as potential modifiable factors. This study aimed to explore and evaluate whether higher consumption of...
Cherry tomatoes are highly appreciated for their nutritional value but remain highly perishable due to rapid respiration and senescence. This study evaluated a multi-hurdle strategy combining plasma-activated water (PAW), sodium caseinate-based edibl...
Little is known about the potential associations between neurodevelopment, dietary diversity and food processing in the toddler period. This study aimed to estimate the association between these dietary quality dimensions and neurodevelopment in todd...
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